Overall-suspender attachment.



G. A. GLEDHILL;

OVERALL SUSPENDER ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.5. 1914.

1,153,060. Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0 WASHINGTON, D. c.

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GEORGE A. GLEDHILL, OF MILWAUKIE, OREGON.

OVERALL-SUSPENDEB ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

. Application filed August 5, 1914. Serial No. 855,206.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. GLEDHILL, residing at Milwaukie, in the county of Clackamas and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overall-Suspender Attachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to overall suspender attachments, and one of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a spring device for the back of an overall suspender, which shall be simple in construction, reliable and efficient in use, and which can be manufactured at slight cost.

Another object of the invention is to provide a suspender for overalls in which the back strap and rear suspender ends will give to the movements of the wearer owing to the spring attachament at the back.

The foregoing and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View in elevation of the shoulder straps and rear suspender ends at the back attached to the spring device for giving a resiliency to the suspender, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same, Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a view in elevation of a modified form of the device.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the suspender back straps passed over the shoulder at the back, and 2 are the The shoulder straps 1 pass through a loop formed of wire of the desired gage and resilient. The wire loop is provided with a cross bar 3 and at the opposite sides of the cross bar the wire strand is bent inwardly as shown at 4, and the sides are each provided with a bend at 5, and from this point the arms 6 diverge and are provided at their terminal ends with outwardly and upwardly extending feet 7.

The spring is mounted in a sheet metal guide formed of one or two members hav ing inclined sides 8, said two members being connected together by a rivet 9 near the lower end and a similar rivet 10 near the upper end thereof.

The bends 5 in the spring are pressed together until they overlap and inclose between them the pivot 10 as shown more clearly in Fig. 1. When there is a pull upon the shoulder strap 1 or the suspender ends 2 the feet 7 will move upward and will slide upon the side edges of the slide plate and prevent the spring from being with drawn therefrom. When the strain is released from the shoulder strap, the spring will assume its normal position.

The suspender ends 2 are connected to the guide plate by means of integral prongs 11 formed by cutting a slit in the material and bending a portion thereof to form the rounded bearing members 12 and the intermediate prongs 11.

As shown in Fig. 4, the cross bar 3 and the side members P, with the bends 5 and the diverging arms 6 are identical with those already described but the feet 7 are bent inwardly instead of outwardly. This spring is connected to a guide plate 16 having inclined sides 17 and the rivets 18 and 19. The plate is bent upon itself at the lower side to form a round bearing and l.- shaped slots 20 are formed in this portion of the plate to receive a loop 21, the ends 22 of which are bent inwardly to be connected by insertion in the slots 20 by pulling the loops down in the rounded portion of the plate, thus making a detachable loop.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a spring attachment made in accordance with this invention is reliable and eflicient in use, cannot readily get out of order and can be manufactured at low cost, and is strong and durable for its purpose.

Various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims.

What is claimed is 1. A spring attachment for suspenders, comprising a sheet metal guide member having inclined sides, a spring wire mounted in the guide member and provided with divergent arms having angular feet forming stops and overlapping bent portions forming a loop within the guide member, a rivet extending through the guide member and through the loop between the bent portions of the wire, and said wire having a loop at its upper end for connection to the back straps of a suspender.

2. A suspender attachment comprising a of the resilient arms with relation to said guide member having inclined sides, an atguide member. 10 tacliing member having divergent resilient In testimony whereof I afiix my signature arms, slidably mounted in the guide memin presence of two witnesses.

her, a rivet extending through the guide GEORGE A. GLEDHILL. member and located between the divergent Witnesses:

arms, having said arms adapted to cooperate A. E. KELLY,

with the rivet to limit the sliding movement R. J. PAULSON.

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